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Drugs are in development that may cure asthma and hay fever once and for all. They target leukotrienes, which are known to cause tightening of the air passages in the lungs and increase mucus productions in nasal passages.
The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.